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Identifier: birdlore15noas (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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hey are aware of some of the interestingthings birds are doing about them. A college professor once complained that the class ofyoung ladies he took out to observe the birds during the spring saw and heard little unlesshe pointed out just what to look at, or called attention to the various sounds one mighthear who really listened for Natures voices. The trouble with these students was thatthey had never been taught to look and listen. They had always studied books andlearned to remember what they read, but they knew nothing about studying without abook. The great value of bird-and nature-study is that it helps people to find out thingsby themselves, making their eyes keen to see, their ears to hear, and their minds tograsp facts which are not set down in print. Training of this kind makes education apleasure and not a task.—A. H. W.) ♦Used locally in the United States, according to Webster, for a little elevated piece of earth in amarsh or swanp, filled with roots and grass.—Ed.
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THE EMPEROR GOOSE By E. W. NELSON %tit /Rational <a00octation o( <auDubon ^ocktitQ KOUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 64 Among all the Wild Geese which make their summer home in the farnorth—both in the Old and the New World—the Emperor Goose is the leastknown and most beautiful. Its snowy white head, dusky throat, satiny graybody, on which each feather is marked by a black crescent and white margin,and the brilliant orange feet, make a strikingly handsome combination ofcolors. When the males first arrive on their breeding-grounds in spring, thebeauty of their plumage is remarka1)le, but much of its satiny luster goes withthe advancing season. Although the breeding-range of the Emperor Goose covers parts of twocontinents, yet it is perhaps more restricted in its territory than any otherspecies of northern Goose. Its summer home lies along the coasts on bothsides of Bering Straits, but so far as we know, the vast majority of them breedin Alaska, mainly on the islands of the lower part o

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